{"id":67010,"date":"2026-02-22T16:55:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/greenland-rejects-trumps-hospital-ship-proposal-citing-existing-free-healthcare-system\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:55:35","slug":"greenland-rejects-trumps-hospital-ship-proposal-citing-existing-free-healthcare-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/greenland-rejects-trumps-hospital-ship-proposal-citing-existing-free-healthcare-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenland rejects Trump’s hospital ship proposal, citing existing free healthcare system"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greenland\u2019s prime minister publicly rebuked President Donald Trump<\/a> on Sunday, rejecting his proposal to send a U.S. hospital ship to the Arctic territory and urging him to stop making “random” social media posts about its future.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen issued the response in a pointed Facebook post following Trump\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n

“We say no thank you from here,” Nielsen wrote. “President Trump’s idea of \u200b\u200bsending an American hospital ship here to Greenland has been noted. But we have a public healthcare system<\/a> where treatment is free for citizens.”<\/p>\n

The prime minister also contrasted Greenland\u2019s system with that of the U.S., writing that, in America, “it costs money to go to the doctor.”<\/p>\n

TRUMP TELLS DAVOS US ALONE CAN SECURE GREENLAND, INSISTS HE WON\u2019T ‘USE FORCE’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Nielsen said Greenland is “always” open to dialogue with the U.S. but urged Trump to engage directly.<\/p>\n

“Talk to us instead of just making more or less random outbursts on social media,” he wrote. “Dialogue and cooperation require respect for decisions about our country being made here at home.”<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Trump announced on Truth Social that his administration was working with Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry<\/a> to send a hospital ship to Greenland to care for people who are sick and “not being taken care of there.”<\/p>\n

RUSSIA, CHINA SQUEEZE US ARCTIC DEFENSE ZONE AS TRUMP EYES GREENLAND<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Landry was designated special envoy to Greenland in December and has held formal discussions outlining Trump\u2019s plans to strengthen Arctic security<\/a> amid threats from Russia and China.<\/p>\n

In late January, Landry spoke with NATO leaders and expressed support for a “framework of a future deal” to expand U.S. influence in the region.<\/p>\n

TOP NATO OFFICIAL REVEALS DETAILS OF STUNNING MEETING WITH TRUMP THAT PRODUCED GREENLAND DEAL ‘FRAMEWORK’<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s offer came after Denmark\u2019s Joint Arctic Command evacuated a crew member from a U.S. submarine seven nautical miles outside Greenland\u2019s capital, Nuuk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The crew member was transferred by a Danish Defense Seahawk helicopter to a hospital in Nuuk and handed over to Greenlandic health authorities, the Joint Arctic Command said.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Navy operates two hospital ships \u2013 the USNS Mercy and the USNS Comfort \u2013 both of which were last docked in Alabama<\/a> for repairs, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u2019s Eric Mack contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greenland\u2019s prime minister publicly rebuked President Donald Trump on Sunday, rejecting his proposal to send a U.S. hospital ship to the Arctic territory and urging him to stop making “random” social media posts about its future. Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen issued the response in a pointed Facebook post following Trump\u2019s announcement. “We say no thank … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}